How To Use Down the stairs In A Sentence
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The officers ran out down the stairs and onto King Street, where the men of Lossburg's regiment had unlimbered a battery of cannons in a small park.
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They charged down the stairs to meet their grandmother.
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One gave his own facemask to a desperate resident, then had to be helped down the stairs himself.
Times, Sunday Times
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After strapping the shoes securely to my feet, I ran down the stairs and to my black truck.
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But as the woman came down the stairs, Aislinn had to suppress a smile.
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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I look at my big daft name on the back wall and nervously come down the stairs.
The Sun
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I think the majority of those that sleepwalk is fairly harmless and quite normal actually, but there are a proportion that do injure themselves falling down the stairs.
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Eventually they came clumping down the stairs - for their fancy dress they had all dressed up as school girls.
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Wilfred had screamed Cora's name, and she'd flown down the stairs to find Wilfred holding a senseless Jane in his arms.
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With my alarm, we have it set so at night there is an unalarmed 'pathway' down the stairs to the kitchen.
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There was a guy who used to carry his bicycle up to the third floor and pick all the bits of grit out of the tyres and chuck them down the stairs.
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“Fell…?” said Vera, coming slowly down the stairs, holding onto the bannister.
My Sweet Audrina
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He honked to hurry me up down the stairs.
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I finished eating my cereal and put it in the sink when I heard Kay coming down the stairs.
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So he walked down the stairs and out onto the driveway and into a humid morning the color and consistency of simmering tapioca.
VAPOR TRAIL
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I floated down the stairs with the soft fabric of the dress swishing around my legs.
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They refused to carry it down the stairs to my basement flat (notified in advance).
Times, Sunday Times
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I was ensconced on the sofa reading the paper when its shrill beeping tone drifted down the stairs.
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With that Katherine quitted the room, and went down the stairs hippety-hop.
A Rock in the Baltic
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They chased down the stairs into the narrow, dirty street.
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As he yells the last part five burly men run down the stairs carrying fully automatic weapons with extended clips.
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Prudence dressed quickly and with Almira hurried to the girls 'rooms while Calvin hastened down the stairs to the scene of destruction.
Prudence Crandall, Woman of Courage
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I ran down the stairs when I spotted Dante sitting in the passenger seat of an IROC with a smashed right headlight.
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I watched the procession disappear down the stairs.
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Don't run down the stairs. Just walk down slowly.
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Devon pulled me down the stairs, getting us a few stares and gapes as ‘the’ Devon was making his entrance without a shirt on.
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When she finally opened the barrier for me I ran along the bridge and down the stairs to find our train at the platform.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cal's mud-caked boots thudded down the hall and down the stairs.
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I proceed down the stairs where neatly stacked frou-frou stilettos and sturdy Dr Marten boots sit on each step, past the well-stocked wine cellar and into the chic rustic minimalism of the kitchen.
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The outdoor area is far more appealing than the inside area, though it is comforting and cozy down the stairs and inside the cellar.
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She pulled her hair back and slowly, as quietly as possible, tiptoed down the stairs.
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He followed her out the door and grabbed her arm before she started down the stairs.
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Voices still chattered in the hallway, doors squeaked open, slammed shut, feet thumped, tramped up and down the stairs.
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He heard nothing but water cascading down the stairs.
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I scrambled into my dressing gown and half-dashed half-limped down the stairs.
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Sophia shook her head, shrugged, and continued to skip down the stairs with enthusiasm and pep.
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In a confused sort of way -- as if I had dreamed it -- I remember that Nora came flying down the stairs in her dressing-gown and bare feet, and nurse hurrying behind her, both crying out in a frightened way, -- something like, "Oh, _lawkes_! what _have_ them boys been doin '?" and, "Oh, boys, _boys_! what _is_ the matter?
We Ten Or, The Story of the Roses
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How-ha grunted, and yielded up the obedience she could not withhold; though, as she went down the stairs to the door, in a tenebrous, glimmering way she wondered that the accident of white skin or swart made master or servant as the case might be.
CHAPTER 19
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He perked up a bit when we went down the stairs to the patisserie for a cookie.
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Luke took Hailey's hand in his, and the two hastily flew down the stairs and out of the lighthouse.
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Brooke led her sister through the house and down the stairs.
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Right now at this moment you're lugging heavy boxes of books down the stairs and I can't even begin to tell her how much that means.
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As she walked down the stairs, she heard her brother's light snores.
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a headfirst plunge down the stairs
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a forward plunge down the stairs
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Once when he came down the stairs, and in stepping over Mitchell's body, set his bare foot in a rivulet of blood.
GALILEE
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In a seamless division of labor, the mothers would traipse up and down the stairs and in and out of elevators with the children, while the dads would encamp in the living room sampling single-malt scotch.
Suburban Tricks, Urban Treats
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He footsteps pounded down the stairs and rang in my ears.
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I loosened my grip on the rail enough to begin a glumble down the stairs (glumble meaning a glide and a stumble all in one).
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I grabbed a black derby hat from my closet and covered my messy hair before following Jake back down the stairs and out to his car.
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I ignored him and proceeded down the stairs when I felt a firm grip on my wrist, jerking me back.
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I got some kind of a donut and a double cup medium no creame or sugar decaffe and headed down the stairs to catch my train.
E.Jim Shannon
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He threw the door open and ran down the stairs.
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Because of the children and the difficulties of taking a tiny baby and a young toddler together up and down the stairs, she did not get out much.
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I ran to the stair chamber, listening to the footfalls of the figure come back down the stairs with another pair of feet pattering quickly behind.
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He pulled on a pair of dark jeans, and trudged down the stairs, grumbling about it being so early.
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I ran down the stairs as fast as I could.
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Giggling I walked down the stairs following the rose petal trail, which led in to the ballroom.
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A moment later I was bounding down the stairs to tell my mom.
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Tanya bounded down the stairs, the slightest of smiles touching her lips as she recalled the previous night.
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She put her clothes back down while listening to the crepitating sound from the dry leaves in Leo's cage and then walked down the stairs and jumped onto the couch turning to the TV.
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The win condition is that when you get news of something terrible happening to someone who smeared Ben Gay all over your friend's locker or pushed another friend down the stairs or any of the other lovely things that happened in high school, you are not glad.
Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway
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But Dyer was coming down the stairs: a shaven head, burning black, close-set eyes, tight twill trousers.
PASSION IN THE PEAK
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(_Enter_ ANNE _from stairs up R. and comes to foot of staircase, followed by_ PIM, _who comes half-way down the stairs_.)
Mr. Pim Passes By
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They just dragged Eamon from the bed, threw him all the way down the stairs, lay him on his back and beat him with sticks embedded with huge nails while my parents pleaded with them to leave him alone because of his age.
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use care when going down the stairs
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Then she flung a arm around his neck, making him bend, and marched him down the stairs.
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She tripped over her own foot, falling down the stairs and landing with a loud thud.
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A pot of tea, thankfully, was on the kitchen table, and I slumped over to it eagerly, flopping down in my battered chair as Mom came bounding down the stairs, my three bags in hand.
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On her way down the stairs she felt inside her pocket to make sure she still had the keys.
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When I heard glass break and crashes in the store downstairs, I went down the stairs to investigate.
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The doorbell rang as I was trooping down the stairs and I counted the possibilities of who it could be.
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So he's giving her a piggyback ride down the stairs.
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Unfortunately, while speeding down the stairs, Lowtax caught his bearskin coat on a gold-plated handrail statue and was flung over the protective barriers, flying headfirst into the bushes.
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On her way down the stairs she felt inside her pocket to make sure she still had the keys.
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There was an electrical flex across the landing and the girl could have easily fallen down the stairs.
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They charged down the stairs to meet their grandmother.
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I mean, here I was with an escaped convict, heading down the stairs of a questionable business with a half-baked plan developing in my mind.
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With that, Chris zippered his backpack, grabbed it and put it on his back and soon ran down the stairs and soon out the front door.
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I heard the guards pattering down the stairs at top speed.
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We walked down the stairs very slowly, taking each flight together, keeping in pace with each other.
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He flew down the stairs with his harried staff scrambling to make ready all he had asked for.
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After the stock of alcohol in my room had run out, I walked - fell - down the stairs and stumbled towards the kitchen in search of more of the intoxicating drink.
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He casually walked down the stairs, humming a jaunty tune to himself as he did so.
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I was the first person in the car line, and I waved to Ellie when she pranced down the stairs.
The Bird House
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As I sloshed into the house, Bobby came bounding down the stairs.
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When he came back from the country on weekends, his little white poodle would run down the stairs and leap into his arms.
WALKING THE BIBLE
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I don't want my father to be remembered as the heavy-set man who couldn't make it down the stairs and gave up,'' Alexandra said in our conversation about news reports of her father's death.
America... Listen to Your Daughters of 9/11
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Playing 21 shots and then getting brain damage from a tumble down the stairs is a terribly, terribly shitty way to celebrate a birthday. spookyu
Hangover Cures: Myth, Legend, Fact | Lifehacker Australia
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My falling down the stairs is a problem and they want to fix it somehow.
Different answers
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Once they had lost the old bag, the six calmly went down the stairs.
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Fred could see the compliment was sincere in her expressive eyes and gave a curt nod then started down the stairs.
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Then a stomping noise came from behind the kids and I saw some massive black rubber boots coming slowly down the stairs.
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Then his expression cleared and he turned to head down the stairs.
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However, the Abbe presently came out, and at a word from him the witches scuttered down the stairs at his heels, leaving Francoise alone with her mistress.
A Second Home
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I sprained my ankle carrying my arthritic dog down the stairs.
The Sun
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But as the woman came down the stairs, Aislinn had to suppress a smile.
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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Crashing and echoing, the filing cabinet toppled end-over-end down the stairs as the thing heaved itself through the door aperture.
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A pretty young girl came hurtling down the stairs.
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I turned and observed both of these young inebriates tumbling down the stairs, their hand luggage bouncing along beside flailing limbs and gyrating torsos.
Border disorder: passages into Mexico
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I could hear his Nintendo music from the living room, so I jumped down the stairs and ran around the house to the deck.
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I galloped down the stairs from the deck of the lodge, jumped into my skis, and secured my poles.
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Don't run down the stairs. Just walk down slowly.
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I walked down the stairs of the subway station to get the train that would leave in a few minutes.
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I pulled on a sweater and trousers and crept down the stairs in bare feet.
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Instead of tiring with the increasing pressure of the task at hand, my Lady thrived, though I was careful to bear the brunt of any physical labor—heating kettles in the kitchen and carrying the water down the stairs, lifting patients, cleaning and sterilizing the lavement machine.
The Mistress of Nothing
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Indeed, they are just down the stairs, negotiate the drop-off layby, cross the road and Bob's your uncle.
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Trailed by Sara, he skipped down the stairs and cautiously opened the door.
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He turned and clattered down the stairs.
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The girl, Eleanor by name, clutched a blanket in one hand as she stumbled down the stairs in footed pajamas.
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As I am leaving, he follows me silently down the stairs and jumps slightly when I turn around.
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Doune leapt at him down the stairs his great sword high above his head and was ready to chop the mage in two in revenge for nearly killing Eltriuqs.
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The outdoor area is far more appealing than the inside area, though it is comforting and cozy down the stairs and inside the cellar.
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Mrs Croft spoke in a kind of gentrified Cockney, which became less gentrified as time went on and more couples spilled down the stairs and into the large, sofa-crammed living room.
Strip Jack
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And with the stuck-up snobs corralled up on the third floor landing, I skipped my way down the stairs, almost singing to myself.
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She scrambled down the stairs and through the living room to the kitchen where her mom was cooking dinner.
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Ten minutes later he came galloping down the stairs to the foyer where they were already waiting.
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Closing the door he started down the stairs once more, planning to go out to the tree house.
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She ran like the wind down the stairs to escape.
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What I cared about, intensely, was what it would feel like to be sent running up and down the stairs of a house as a teenage maid, with holiday gaieties in full force, and everyone being mean to me, instead of pampering and babying me the way my parents did on Christmas Eve.
What Girls Want
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I tugged again, and then as I stumbled, the suitcase teetered, and fell backwards, bouncing down the stairs to land at the bottom.
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Sounds suggestive of the carrying upstairs of luggage followed, and a hinnying laugh echoed once down the stairs.
For the Sake of the School
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It would have been impossible to hear any explanation; but the five minutes were over, and the horns had ceased, and there remained only the noise of a singular leaping of feet, explained perhaps by a possible pillow-fight, that kept the family below partially awake until the bells and cannon made known the dawning of the glorious day, – the sunrise, or "the rising of the sons," as Mr. Peterkin jocosely called it when they heard the little boys and their friends clattering down the stairs to begin the outside festivities.
The Peterkin Papers
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A girl in a ruffled jean miniskirt with a colourfully striped v-neck, her light hoodie zip-up flying behind her, came bounding down the stairs.
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I slung her over my shoulder and lumbered down the stairs to throw her out on the street.
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They chased down the stairs into the narrow, dirty street.
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She took one last look at her bedroom, before starting down the stairs.
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I didn't respond to his unasked question, carrying everything carefully into the house and down the stairs into my new room.
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How-ha grunted, and yielded up the obedience she could not withhold; though, as she went down the stairs to the door, in a tenebrous, glimmering way she wondered that the accident of white skin or swart made master or servant as the case might be.
CHAPTER 19
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Heaving another sigh, he jogged down the stairs to the lobby of the venue and made his way across to the side door which would lead him round to the backstage.
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When she was finally ready, she walked gracefully down the stairs and floated toward the door.
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Gwyneth turned as Aislinn came down the stairs and her eyes swept her from small slippers to the silk snood covering her bright head.
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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The thief heard soft footsteps coming down the stairs.
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Zach gave out a yell, threw the bedroom door open and almost flung himself down the stairs.
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Some really fit guy wearing a gorgeous top came wandering down the stairs.
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I turned over to find I had fallen down the stairs, and I had also hit my arm against the banister as I tumbled down.
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The Danes galumphed down the stairs to be near her.
Three Stages of Amazement
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But as he felt his way down the stairs, that were dimly lighted now, he knew he had all his senses with him, for he "spotted" and admired the lurking places that had been designed for undoing of the unwary, or even the overwary.
In The Time Of Light
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Moira nodded in agreement and we both started down the stairs to talk to the guys.
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A few steps into the house, loud steps pounded down the stairs.
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One shocking scene shows street children assaulting a wino and gleefully rolling him down the stairs, punishment for his spiritual and physical corruption.
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The gift shop in the main building is tucked away down the stairs.
Times, Sunday Times
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I heard the footsteps clatter down the stairs and I slid down the next railing.
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The children rushed pell-mell down the stairs.
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Willow came down the stairs, lugging a suitcase and wearing a backpack.
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She looked down the stairs to her mother's moon-white, but not so luminous, face at the curve of the bannisters.
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
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She came down the stairs slowly, trailing the coat behind her.
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The General paid the bill from a bundle of fivers and hurried down the stairs.
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I sat up when I heard the doorbell and my heartbeat quickened as I got to my feet and raced out of my room, down the stairs and stopped at the bottom one.
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She had heard her parents discussing the effects she had on them before but only when she crept down the stairs and stuck her head through the banisters to hear their clandestine conversation.
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At the head of the staircase they stopped and watched the Princess as she went down the stairs and across the courtyard, her long white robe trailing behind her, with the cup of ruby-red wine in one hand, and the farl of cake in the other.
Tales From Scottish Ballads
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Yaming flip - flopped down the stairs in her felt boots.
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As if on cue, Alisha came bounding down the stairs.
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She runs down the stairs, past her mother and across the garden to her father and 80 clutches his arms.
SEA MUSIC
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I grabbed my coat and bag, ran out of the flat and down the stairs in case he was following.
The Sun
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Not wanting to go back to sleep, she slipped out of bed, and walked down the stairs to the kitchen.
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B bounds down the stairs to the basement locker room.
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But as the woman came down the stairs, Aislinn had to suppress a smile.
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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It nearly gave out beneath him, but he gritted his teeth and slowly inched his way down the stairs, using the handrails for support.
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an incautious step sent her headlong down the stairs
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‘Great’ He said belting out the room and I heard him dash down the stairs.
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Mother's thin voice floated down the stairs: `Que sera, sera, whatever will be, will be.
PROSPECT HILL
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I waited for a few girls to come down the stairs, smiled distractedly at their approving glances, and then hurried upstairs.
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The girl who had come down the stairs with the message from the "missis" was no servant, but Eilert's young wife.
Look Back on Happiness
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Then a stomping noise came from behind the kids and I saw some massive black rubber boots coming slowly down the stairs.
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The doors of the guildhall opened and Jengo paced his way down the stairs and down the hall.
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I ran down the stairs as fast as I could.
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So we whizzed up to Hertfordshire to get the boxes, then picked up more from the old gaff, and then dashed over to run up and down the stairs a few hundred times.
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They had to make a few trips up and down the stairs carrying bedding and stuff but finally they finished and slumped back on the huge cozy bed they had produced.
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They charged down the stairs to meet their grandmother.
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I hastily pulled its deep plum colored wool around my shoulders and clasped it as I ran down the stairs.
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Thirty minutes and a blow-dry later and I bounded down the stairs in a pair of jean shorts and a t-shirt.
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I ran down the stairs and walked out the door before I fastened it behind me.
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The sound of rushing footfalls echoed into the basement as the others came rushing down the stairs, fearful of what the yelling was about.
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A short leap and I was down the stairs and half way through the lobby.
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She wore a pearl charm bracelet on her wrist and bounded down the stairs.
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I went down the stairs with great care, found the bottle, glugged some into a cup.
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When she finally opened the barrier for me I ran along the bridge and down the stairs to find our train at the platform.
Times, Sunday Times
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My family should have been less concerned about his tippling and more worried about his tripping down the stairs.
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Upon pulling them on, I started my slow descent down the stairs.
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However, just as the twins were starting down the stairs, a cry roared down the hall.
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Gwyneth turned as Aislinn came down the stairs and her eyes swept her from small slippers to the silk snood covering her bright head.
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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She went down the stairs with me trailing along while telling me a few things I needed to remember, turned a few lefts and rights until I didn't know where I was, and finally stopped at a large door.
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They took two hallway doors off so he could fit down the stairs.
The Sun
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Then, in a move that brought the house down, she ran down the stairs and planted a kiss on his cheek as flashbulbs popped.
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I grabbed my coat and bag, ran out of the flat and down the stairs in case he was following.
The Sun
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She nearly took a header down the stairs, but managed to regain her balance, grabbing the railing in her hand and making sure to pay more attention now.
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A blur of a pinafore and ruffles met my eyes as my little sister Lotte barreled down the stairs.
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They charged down the stairs to meet their grandmother.
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She tripped over her own feet and fell down the stairs.
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A second later he heard steps on the stairs, and popped his head over the back of the couch to see Kate plunking down the stairs fiddling with the straps on her dress.
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I threw the book on the floor and picked up my inkwell and feather pen, then walked down the stairs to our Dining hall.
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Frederick Seward was coming down the stairs when he met the "deliveryman," Lewis Powell, alias Lewis Paine.
The Night Lincoln Died
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When I was taken back there under escort I'd told Colonel Belyak to give me fifteen minutes before he sent his troops in but it hadn't taken that long to get into the uniform, and I'd stowed my clothes under the handbasin in the bathroom and was down the stairs before the headlights of the vehicles outside came flooding through the windows and I heard a chorus of shouted commands.
Quiller Meridian
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The lordly sneer carried him through the ante-room, down the stairs and into the street.
DEATH IN FASHION
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I sprained my ankle carrying my arthritic dog down the stairs.
The Sun
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I open the door to Jake's room, and walk out into the hallway, padding down the stairs slowly.
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I ran down the stairs as fast as I could.
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He takes me down the stairs, into the basement, past the paintings of long-dead kings and queens, to a pretty, pastel-coloured but unremarkable portrait of a young woman.
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I hit him back and he somersaulted down the stairs.
